---
title: "SophieLens on the Nokia X"
description: "Nokia announced the Nokia X yesterday, an Android phone from Nokia. We've had SophieLens running on it since November and couldn't say anything until now."
url: "https://rayson.me/writing/sophielens-on-the-nokia-x/"
category: "Projects"
author: "Janarayson"
published: 2014-02-25
---

Nokia announced the Nokia X in Barcelona yesterday. A Nokia phone running Android ... three of them actually, the X, the X+ and the XL. It's Android underneath, but with Nokia's own store, HERE Maps and MixRadio instead of Google's apps, and a home screen of tiles.

We've been building for it since November and couldn't say a word about it. SophieLens is in the Nokia Store for it.

<Figure
  src={nokiaX}
  alt="A bright green Nokia X standing upright on a white table against a blue backdrop, its home screen showing Phone, Messaging and People tiles above Store, Email, Internet, Outlook.com and Skype"
  caption="Nokia X at MWC, 24 February 2014. Photo: Maurizio Pesce, CC BY 2.0."
/>

We've done Symbian, MeeGo, Qt, WRT and Windows Phone for Nokia, and now it's Android ... from Nokia, of all people.

## Android, but Nokia

The app itself is normal Android work. The Holo theme, an action bar, 9-patch buttons, drawables at hdpi. The screen is 800 by 480, and the camera runs sideways like it does on the Lumias.

Nokia's icon guide asks for a 72 by 72 launcher icon, with the glyph inside a 60 by 60 zone and in one colour, so it sits with Nokia's own icons. It suggests six colours. We used their blue, #0568FF.

<Figure
  src={aolCamera}
  alt="SophieLens on the Nokia X in landscape: a snowy field with a clump of trees, a photo thumbnail top left, an up arrow bottom left, and a grey bar on the right with the filter pack button, the shutter and the menu"
  caption="Camera, November 2013."
/>

The arrow at the bottom opens the filter strip, and the name of the filter goes across the viewfinder in script.

<Figure
  src={aolFilters}
  alt="The filter strip open along the bottom, with the black and white Nostalgia filter on the viewfinder and its name written across the middle in script"
  caption="Filter strip, November 2013."
/>

## Packs

The packs are the same ones as on Windows Phone. Standard comes free with five filters, and the rest are locked until you buy them ... Vintage, Fashion, Sophia's Sepia, Lomo, Life in Mono and Light Leak.

<Figure
  src={aolPacks}
  alt="The Filter Packs screen: tiles for Standard, Vintage, Fashion, Sophia's Sepia, Lomo, Life in Mono and Light Leak, each with a sample photo and a one-line description, all except Standard with a lock"
  caption="Filter packs, November 2013."
/>

There's an Asha pack in the build as well, ten colours, each one a curve plus a glitter texture.

<Tiles
  items={[
    { src: gCyan, alt: 'Cyan glitter texture', label: 'Cyan' },
    { src: gGreen, alt: 'Green glitter texture', label: 'Green' },
    { src: gGrey, alt: 'Grey glitter texture', label: 'Grey' },
    { src: gMagenta, alt: 'Magenta glitter texture', label: 'Magenta' },
    { src: gNavy, alt: 'Navy glitter texture', label: 'Navy' },
    { src: gOlive, alt: 'Olive glitter texture', label: 'Olive' },
    { src: gOrange, alt: 'Orange glitter texture', label: 'Orange' },
    { src: gPink, alt: 'Pink glitter texture', label: 'Pink' },
    { src: gPurple, alt: 'Purple glitter texture', label: 'Purple' },
    { src: gYellow, alt: 'Yellow glitter texture', label: 'Yellow' },
  ]}
  caption="Asha pack textures."
/>

Settings has one switch, Touch to Capture, so you can tap anywhere on the screen instead of the shutter button.

<Figure
  src={aolSettings}
  alt="The SophieLens Asha settings tab with one option, Touch to Capture: tap screen instead of shutter button to capture photos"
  caption="Settings, November 2013."
/>

Our build is called SophieLens Asha, and the About page calls it "the perfect companion for your Asha device".

<Figure
  src={aolAbout}
  alt="The SophieLens Asha About tab: version 1.0.0.0, a short description saying it is developed by a small team at Nerd Attack, and Facebook, Feedback and Privacy buttons"
  caption="About, November 2013."
/>